Sketch for a Phenomenology of Dreaming

1993 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-143
Author(s):  
Cecile T. Tougas
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Husserlian Phenomenology ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Phenomenological Psychology ◽  
Internal Time ◽  
Fundamental Structure ◽  
Time Consciousness ◽  
Extended Sense ◽  
Logical Investigations

AbstractDreaming as lived experience qualifies as intentional life, despite its strangeness. Yet the dream-phenomena themselves receive little direct clarification consistent with Edmund Husserl's major work on conscious intentionality. With fundamental accomplishments of Husserlian phenomenology in play, how could a study of these neglected appearances begin? First it is necessary to describe the essential relevant Husserlian concepts. From Husserl's descriptions in his phenomenological psychology, his analysis of internal time-consciousness, and his theory of wholes and parts in Logical Investigations, the sense of intentionality as a streaming indivisible nexus, a double continuity of inseparable wholeness, becomes evident. Immersed in this self-awareness, we do not find it difficult to access dream-appearances and account for their connection in intentional life. A claim can be made for their presentational objectivity as well as for their "gnomonic" subjectivity. A systematic sketch of their typology or fundamental structure is thus possible without reducing dream-intentionality to something other than itself. Hence, a Husserlian sense of conscious lived experience is first presented. Dream evidence is then considered, despite possible bewilderment, in order to provide a clue to an extended sense of both subjectivity and objectivity. Lines toward a development of dream typicality are thereby indicated.

On the Nonindependent Parts of Time-Consciousness: Husserl’s Early Phenomenological Investigations and the Perception of Melody

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Wiskus
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Empirical Science ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Internal Time ◽  
Empirical Psychology ◽  
Time Consciousness ◽  
Subject And Object ◽  
Logical Investigations ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Abstract Drawing upon Edmund Husserl’s Logical Investigations, I apply the laws of mereology—the study of parts and wholes—to the analysis of time-consciousness in his On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time (1893–1917), arguing that Husserl’s phenomenological solution to problems raised by empirical psychology in the late nineteenth century concerning the relation between subject and object was inspired by a rethinking of the notion of intentionality in terms of an extensional whole. Turning, then, to descriptions from Husserl’s careful analyses of tone and melody in On the Phenomenology of the Consciousness of Internal Time (1893–1917), I claim that melody’s structure of expression pertains specifically to retention (which I distinguish from recollection) as a nonindependent part of a flowing whole. This mereologic reformulation helps us think through the problem of how a melody is perceived in time. Furthermore, I show how, according to Husserl, there is a unity of the sensation of “tone” and the “flow of consciousness,” and I argue that by understanding this unity as a whole of nonindependent parts, we grasp a significant insight that illuminates phenomenology’s overall aim of considering the evidence of empirical science together with the formal laws of logic.

scholarly journals On Time and Other Things: Some Cartesian Dichotomies in Antarctica

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Sarah de Barros Viana Hissa
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Internal Time ◽  
Time Consciousness ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way ◽  
Global Relations

Antarctica differs from all other regions in the world, not only from its unique geography, but also in the way humans understand it and have incorporated it into global relations. Considering Antarctica's distinctive landscapes and human relations, this paper discusses aspects of how time is humanly perceived in Antarctica. Basing on elements from different human occupations, nineteenth-century sailor-hunters and current incursions, this discussion approximates different historical groups in their experiences of Antarctica, connecting their personal lives, past and present. Meanwhile, also put into issue are the dualities that separate nature and culture, physical and relative time, and past and present, as well as the related notions of time in itself, perceived time speed and internal time consciousness.

scholarly journals The Image of the German, the Pole, the Latvian, and the Lithuanian in Lithuanian and Latvian Folklore

2021 ◽  
Vol 84 ◽  
pp. 49-76
Author(s):  
Laima Anglickienė ◽  
◽  
Antra Kļavinska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Ethnic Origin ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Ethnic Stereotypes ◽  
Similarities And Differences

In multi-ethnic societies, one way in which ethnicity manifests itself is in classifying people according to their ethnic origin. Such classification is based on stereotyping and is typically achieved by emphasizing certain common characteristics rather than individual particularities. Both lived experience and folklore corroborate the fact that ethnic stereotypes, ethnic self-awareness, and identity are also influenced by historical circumstances. This article focuses on Lithuanians’ and Latvians’ attitudes towards Poles and Germans, and towards one another during the period between the eighteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries. The aim of this article is to reveal how the folklore of the two neighbouring nations, Lithuanians and Latvians, depicts the aforementioned ethnic groups; what historical events, cultural and social factors determined the similarities and differences in their portrayal in Lithuanian and Latvian folklore.

Scripting Women’s Studies: Neera Desai on Feminism, Feminist Movements and Struggles

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-306
Author(s):  
Veena Poonacha
Keyword(s):  
Women's Studies ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Western India ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Feminist Movements

Neera Desai’s pioneering effort to introduce women’s studies into the university system was born out of her commitment to women’s equality. She visualized women’s studies as a movement within the academia to challenge the theoretical rationale for oppressive socio-economic and political institutions and structures. Seeking to excavate the intellectual and ideological moorings of this remarkable woman, this paper reviews her last major work, titled, Feminism as Experience: Thoughts and Narratives (2006). The exploration reveals not only her academic interest in the study of movements, but also her intimate connect with the groundswells of feminist politics in India for over six decades. Against this rich and varied history of twentieth century Indian women’s movement in Western India, Neera Desai, presents the oral histories of women, who were in the forefront of the struggle. This paper, then examines her earlier work, entitled The Social Construction of Feminist Consciousness: A Study of Ideology and Self Awareness among Women Leader (1992) to uncover the changing frames of her research.

Lack of Tools as Loss of Memory

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frédéric Pouillaude
Keyword(s):  
Material Objects ◽  
Internal Time ◽  
Time Consciousness

This chapter bases its discussion on Bernard Stiegler’s analysis in Technics and Time (1998). He argues that every technique externalized in material objects simultaneously exteriorizes memory. Every object produced or used by a technique both houses and relays the memory of the living actions and gestures which produced or used it. Not every technique is a mnemotechnique like writing or mechanical recording; but every technique involves a process of memory insofar as it passes via object mediation. Stiegler calls this process of exteriorizing memory a form of “tertiary retention,” invoking the vocabulary used by Husserl in The Phenomenology of Internal Time Consciousness (1964).

Spontaneous Transformation and Recovery From Problematic Eating: A Heuristic Inquiry

2020 ◽  
pp. 002216782094580
Author(s):  
Stephanie Shelburne ◽  
Devorah Curtis ◽  
Donna Rockwell
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Transformational Change ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Eating Patterns ◽  
Spontaneous Transformation ◽  
Problematic Eating ◽  
Conversational Interviews

Health care professionals agree that there are countless individuals with problematic eating habits that detract from health and well-being but do not directly meet the criteria for diagnosis of disorder. Previous research identifies that problematic eating patterns are notoriously challenging to address and that positive changes in behavior are difficult to maintain. This qualitative study contributes to the literature identifying potential mechanisms for transformative and lasting change for individuals exhibiting problematic eating patterns. Utilizing heuristic methodology, the lived experience of spontaneous transformation as a mechanism of change in the development of, and recovery from, problematic eating habits was illuminated and explored by the primary researcher, SS, and six female coresearchers. The data for this study were obtained through in-depth, informal conversational interviews. Heuristic analysis of the data revealed six core themes relevant to the experience of the phenomenon of spontaneous transformation and the recovery from problematic eating habits: (a) early messaging in environment of origin, (b) moments of suffering as gateways to change, (c) perceived loss of control, (d) implicit awareness resulting in transformation, (e) physical expressions of expansion and constriction, (f) and the necessity for a new definition of recovery. The findings of this study point toward the experience of spontaneous transformation as a mechanism for enhanced self-awareness and potential for generating transformational change in patterns of problematic eating.

scholarly journals An Autoethnography About Recovering Awareness Following Brain Injury: Is My Truth Valid?

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sneha Shankar
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Brain Injury ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Patient Centeredness ◽  
Poetic Narrative

This autoethnography confronts the assumptions and treatment of patients who have had a traumatic brain injury (TBI). TBI may be followed by deficits that can impact a person’s self-awareness, and I describe my experience with this symptom. In this personal poetic narrative, I provide a glimpse into how I experienced typical symptoms of brain injury and illustrate the complexity of recovery. I suggest patient voices are too often discredited, which goes against the medical framework of patient-centeredness. I provide a voice to the lived experience of brain injury and illuminate the dehumanizing nature of being a patient of this injury.

Using Reflective Journaling to Establish a Holistic Nursing Practice Council

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-38
Author(s):  
Angela Brathovde, ◽  
Joyce Bodine, ◽  
Joseph Cagliostro, ◽  
Loukia Lopresti, ◽  
Lina Perumpail, ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Meaningful Change ◽  
Reflective Journaling ◽  
Holistic Nursing ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
Traditional Pedagogy

Reflective journaling in professional nursing is a tool to foster self-awareness, as a self-care practice, to process the lived experience of nursing, and expand learning objectives by empowering nurses to challenge traditional pedagogy through self-discovery, increase critical thinking, and promote professional development. This article describes utiliizng reflective journaling for members of a newly established holistic council at a 500-bed teaching hospital on the East Coast. Reflective journaling sessions were incorporated into the council meeting structure for 6 months as a self-care practice, to facilitate self-awareness, and to foster meaningful change in their nursing practice.

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